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International Games Day @ Your Library is an initiative to reconnect communities through libraries around games brought together with the American Library Association and other library systems from around the world. Over a thousand libraries around the world will take part in this program. This year’s IGD is on Saturday November 21st.

Companies donating kits to libraries this year are Konami with the Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game demo, USAopoly with Reverse Charades, YummyYummyYummy with Nommons: Math Universe and Calcuquest, Steve Jackson Games with Trophy Buck and Munchkin Treasure Hunt, Looney Labs with Choose One and EcoFluxx, and Paizo with the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. Now your library may not have gotten any of these kits. Feel free to bring your favorite games to share with all. Dryden Press is offering a free introductory copy of their Big Damn Dryden RPG to all who take part in IGD.

There will also be the International Minecraft Hunger Games set up by the Ann Arbor District Library. Your library might be one of the districts for this tournament against other libraries. BallyHoo Games is giving promo codes to their new iPad/iPhone game Zombie Heat to 25 libraries.

If you have some time this Saturday, stop by to check out the gaming and be part of your community.

American Library AssociationThe American Library Association is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 55,000 members. Its mission is to promote the highest quality library and information services and public access to information.

Extra Life Con is an event to raise money for the WVU Children’s Hospital through the Extra Life Charity starting at 10am on Saturday November 7th and going at least until 1am on Sunday morning at the Capital City Lodge Fraternal Order of Police in Dunbar.

Admission is a minimum donation of $25. There you can buy tickets for $1 which can be spent to enter tournaments or for the raffle that they will draw at 10pm. All proceeds will be going to charity. They have prizes and raffle items donated by local business and supporters of Extra Life to give away.

Pathfinder Society and SPARKS will both be running RPG sessions throughout the day. There will be a board game library donated by CharCon, a pool table, dart board, poker table, arcade and pinball machines to play. Chick-fill-A at the Town Center will be providing free lunch.

There will be Ms Pac Man and Galaga High Score tournaments at different times throughout the day. Other tournaments include Martian Dice, pool, Settlers of Catan, darts, poker, and King of Tokyo. All tournaments have prizes and you can sign up any time up to 10 minutes of start time. They will do a Wits & Wagers Game Show at 7pm. At around 10pm they will start-up large group gaming like Werewolf, Resistance, and others.

They have already raised nearly half of their target goal for this event. You can sign up ahead of time or if you can not make it yourself still donate to help out some sick kids.

Gamers of all type should be able to find something fun to here. Of course if you can not make, please consider making a donation to help out a sick kid.

For events they will have several panels on cosplaying and make-up, an acoustic concert by metal band HARRAH, a costume contest, and a raffle. There will be a game room and tournaments run by Rare Drops. The costume contest will have awards for kids 12 and under, original design, and different levels of craftsmanship voted on by local cosplayers. The raffle has items donated from vendors, IDW, Braxton County tourism, and even WV Fandoms Blog.

Vending at the event will be local shops, crafters, and artists of all kinds. They will be selling items such as book, art prints, toys, comics, video games, jewelry, vitamins, plushies, collectibles, games, and more.

Cosplay groups Mandalorian Mercs, WV Ghostbusters, Causeplayers, and the D20 Girls Project will be in attendance. The new magazine The Charleston Anvil will be making their début at the show. Indy wrestling federation IWA East Coast will also attend.

It is only $5 to attend, free for those under 10 with an adult.

This is a good show for any nerd to shop and hang out with fellow nerds. Also helps out a good cause.